Greece, Greece

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Greece

Greece links ancient landscapes with island villages, mountain traditions and a regional table that changes from the Aegean to Epirus and Crete.

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Hidden places

In Epirus, walk the cobbled mule paths of Zagori between stone villages and arched bridges over the Vikos gorge's rivers – a landscape on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 2023.

Best time to visit

Best time to travel

April to June and September to October balance sea warmth, archaeological visits and village travel without the fiercest heat.

Travel tips

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  • Before booking an island ferry from Athens, check the departure port on your ticket: most Cyclades routes leave from Piraeus, but Rafina serves Andros, Tinos and Mykonos, and Lavrio serves Kea and Kythnos. The ports lie far apart.
  • On Chios, visit the southern mastic villages, where mastiha resin is scraped from lentisk trees; in Pyrgi, buy it as a liqueur or sweet among houses patterned with grey-and-white xysta.
  • Spend Holy Saturday in Corfu Town: when the bells ring for the 'First Resurrection' in the late morning, residents hurl water-filled clay pots, botides, from their balconies.
  • In Nafplio, the first capital of modern Greece, look by the door of Agios Spyridon for the framed mark said to be left by a bullet when Ioannis Kapodistrias was assassinated there in 1831.

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